I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future. I didn’t like what I saw down there. Those men and women had no special daring or brilliance. They wanted what everybod...

a woman told a man when he got off a plane that I was dead. a magazine printed the fact that I was dead

Curly Wagner picked out Morris Moscowitz. It was after school and eight or ten of us guys had heard about it and we walked out behind the gym to watch. Wagner laid down the rules, “We f...

The next night Bobby and Valerie came over. They had recently moved into my apartment building and now lived across the court. Bobby had on his tight knit shirt. Everything always fitte...

Soon after that I made regular and that gave me an 8 hour night, which beat 12, and pay for holidays. Of the 150 or 200 that had come in, there were only two of us left. Then I met Davi...

old grey-haired waitresses in cafes at night have given it up, and as I walk down sidewalks of light and look into windows

when I was in grammar school my parents were poor and in my lunch bag there was only a peanut butter sandwich.

16 and one-half inch neck 68 years old lifts weights body like a young

I’m out of matches. the springs in my couch are broken. they stole my footlocker. they stole my oil painting of

Again I was on a new route. The Stone always put me on hard routes, but now and then, due to the circumstances of things, he was forced to place me on one less murderous. Route 511 was ...

first they used to, he told me, gun and bomb the elephants, you could hear their screams over… but you flew high to bomb the peop… you never saw it,